March, 2011

                                                                                         This a sad story – well, sort of. It features a […]

                                                                                         This a sad story – well, sort of. It features a […]

Now that the dust has begun to settle and the media are left with nothing to report  except Enda Kenny rushing off to Europe to pretend he’s Angela’s (with a hard ‘g’)’s bestest friend and Eamon Gilmore rushing off to Athens to pretend he’s a European statesman,  it might be helpful to spend a little […]

Now that the dust has begun to settle and the media are left with nothing to report  except Enda Kenny rushing off to Europe to pretend he’s Angela’s (with a hard ‘g’)’s bestest friend and Eamon Gilmore rushing off to Athens to pretend he’s a European statesman,  it might be helpful to spend a little […]

I’ve always loved cricket. My memory is filled with sun-drenched days, the click of ball on willow-ash,  the gasp of the bowler as he launches a googly and the silly mid-on makes an amazing catch just short of the bound…Sorry. I can’t go on with this. Unlike John Hume, I never as a youngster played […]

I’ve always loved cricket. My memory is filled with sun-drenched days, the click of ball on willow-ash,  the gasp of the bowler as he launches a googly and the silly mid-on makes an amazing catch just short of the bound…Sorry. I can’t go on with this. Unlike John Hume, I never as a youngster played […]

The Venerable Organ this morning has one of its twisted-blood headlines: “Bunscoil minister’s kids attended ‘flawed’: report”.  You got that first time, I expect. I still don’t know what it’s trying to say, apart from the Education Correspondent believing it’s a good idea to use the same word for ‘children’ and ‘young goats’. But if […]

The Venerable Organ this morning has one of its twisted-blood headlines: “Bunscoil minister’s kids attended ‘flawed’: report”.  You got that first time, I expect. I still don’t know what it’s trying to say, apart from the Education Correspondent believing it’s a good idea to use the same word for ‘children’ and ‘young goats’. But if […]

“They’ve bankrupted this country and handed over sovereignty to the IMF!”  That’s what the opposing parties shouted as loudly as they could during the recent election – Fianna Fáil and the Greens had mismanaged the economy and betrayed the men and women of 1916.  They had a point. The south now has a debt that’s […]

“They’ve bankrupted this country and handed over sovereignty to the IMF!”  That’s what the opposing parties shouted as loudly as they could during the recent election – Fianna Fáil and the Greens had mismanaged the economy and betrayed the men and women of 1916.  They had a point. The south now has a debt that’s […]